Tapiwa Chakwera, daughter of former President Lazarus Chakwera, has taken her husband Sean Kampondeni to Court in a bid to legally end their marriage, in a case that has already begun attracting significant public attention. The high-profile divorce hearing had been scheduled for Wednesday, August 19, 2026, but was adjourned due to network and communication […]
“There is need to educate the youth, women who get the loan on financial prudence and discipline.” The youth and women in the country are facing insurmountable problems to access the flagship countrywide loan scheme from the the country’s micro-finance firm, the National Economic Empowerment Funds (NEEF) due to cumbersome procedures. The matter was raised […]
Director of Communications at the State House, Sean Kampondeni, has taken a swipe at police officers who been harassing journalists over petty issues, saying their actions run counter to the government’s policy of ensuring a free media. Kampondeni made the remarks in his contribution during the World Press Freedom Day panel discussion, which took place […]
State House director of communication and executive assistant to President Lazarus Chakwera, Sean Kampondeni, has played down reports that the Malawi leader is sending Malawi troops to Mozambique mid this month to fight the Islamist insurgents. Kampondeni told journalists on Monday, during the weekly media briefing at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre, that Chakwera has not not ordered the Malawi soldiers to […]
State House has dismissed media reports that the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBIGC), which is expected to establish a Delivery Unit to help the government in service delivery, will siphon taxpayer’s money through salaries and other expenditures, saying the government would not spend any money on the service. Speaking at Sanjika Palace on […]
Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM) has written President Lazarus Chakwera to protest his intention to establish a diplomatic mission with Israel in Jerusalem. MAM in a correspondence to the President through its chairperson Sheikh Idruss Muhammed seen by Nyasa Times has since asked the Chakwera administration to review the issue of opening the embassy in […]
State House director of communications and executive assistant to the President, Sean Kampondeni has clarified that President Lazarus Chakwera first born son Nick Chakwera was not the one involved in an accident as being speculated on social media, saying infact it was another relation of the Malawi leader who had a crash. Speaking in Mzuzu on […]
State House director of communication and executive assistant to the President, Sean Kampondeni, has expressed worry over the growing tendency of fake news on social media especially to do with the President. Kampondeni said they will utilize the State House weekly brief to address such fake reports from social media carpers. He brushed aside as fake […]
State Residences director of communications and executive assistant to President Lazarus Chakwera has said there is nothing to hide that South Africa-based business mogul Simbi Phiri of Khato Civils is connected to the Malawi leader and supported his election campaign but that he will not get preferential treatment in doing business with government. Simbi Phiri […]
State House director of communication and executive assistant to the President, Pastor Sean Kampondeni has announced that President Lazarus Chakwera will release names of members of 60 boards in the next 48 hours as part of completing the nine-party Tonse Alliance-led administration transition process. Kampondeni announced this at the weekly briefing currently underway at Kamuzu […]
In Nyasa Times editorial last week, we saluted Sate House Director of Communication Sean Kampondeni and press secretary Brian Banda for the Weekly Briefing initiative. We hailed the initiative because we see it as an important avenue for the public to be reliably informed with regards to what the presidency is up to. However, we […]
State House director of communications pastor Sean Kampondeni told reporters in Lilongwe on Monday morning that President Lazarus Chakwera is committed to ensuring that all key campaign promises are delivered at the end of his term of five years. Kampondeni said during the second in a series of newly-introduced weekly State House briefings at Kamuzu […]
Tongues are wagging over reports regarding the alleged meeting between President Lazarus Chakwera and opposition leader, Kondwani Nankhumwa. Earlier today, State House Director of Communications Sean Kampondeni told the media, during his Weekly Briefs, that President Chakwera met in camera Leader of Opposition Kondwani Nankhumwa at Parliament building and also discussed national matters on Thursday. […]
State House director of communication Pastor Sean Kampondeni has said President Lazarus Chakwera’s position on Malawi Enterprise Development Fund (Medf) loans is on depoliticization of the facility powered by the ‘Chakwera Super Hi 5’ – his political mantra. Kampondeni speaking at maiden State House Press Briefing which the Lazarus Chakwera led administration has pledged will […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has appointed maverick broadcaster Brian Banda of Times Media as Press Secretary at State House effectively becoming his spokesman while Sean Tsanzo Kampondeni is the spin doctor as director of communications and executive assistant to the President. Kampondeni confirmed the appointment of Banda in a public notice on Saturday. The President has […]
While prominent legal scholars and Malawi Law Society (MLS) have given varying positions on the K7 billion legal bill for two legal teams that represented President Lazarus Chakwera and Vice-President Saulos Chilima in the May 21 2019 presidential election nullification petition to be footed by Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) as assessed by Agnes Patemba, registrar […]
State House has warned that some people have created a fake Twitter handle for Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera. In a statement, State House director of communication and executive assistant to the president Sean Kampondeni warns people not to be misled by the fake twitter account impersonating the Head of State. Kampondeni says State House has […]
Malawi government has made an impassioned appeal to the erstwhile ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to provide it with a contrary figure on the amount of money the Peter Mutharika administration plundered during the six years it was in power after the party claimed President Chakwera exaggerated the over K1 trillion (over $1 billion) was […]